Education
Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, San Diego
M.A. Social Sciences, University of Chicago
B.A. Political Science and Sociology, University of Notre Dame
Courses Taught
- SOC 290: Social Theory I
- SOC 340: An Introduction to Cultural Sociology
- SOC 342: Global Inequalities
- SOC 490: Social Theory II
- SOC 614: Social Theory
Research
- Social theory
- Capitalism
- Historical Sociology
- Social Movements
- Consumption
- Culture
- Philosophy of Social Science
Selected Publications
Tad Skotnicki (2025). “Two Ways of Arguing with Culture,” American Journal of Cultural Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-025-00274-8: 1-28
Tad Skotnicki (2025). “Capitalist Totality and Developmental Explanation,” Critical Historical Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1: 51-78
Tad Skotnicki (2024). “Meaning and the Commodity Form,” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Vol. 54, No. 4: 537-555.
Tad Skotnicki (2022). “Modern Dramas: Transcendence and Immanence in Power in Modernity,” Critical Historical Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2: 307-325.
Tad Skotnicki (2021). “The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture,” Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Tad Skotnicki and Kelly Nielsen (2021). “Toward a Theory of Alienation: Futurelessness in Financial Capitalism,” Theory and Society, Vol. 50, No. 6: 837-865
Tad Skotnicki (2020). “Commodity Fetishism as Semblance,” Sociological Theory, Vol. 38, No. 4: 362-377
